Definition of stop

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• stop is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
• stop is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
• stop is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7

Definition of stop

• put an end to a state or an activity (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. cease
  2. discontinue
  3. give up
  4. lay off
  5. quit
• an obstruction in a pipe or tube (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. block
  2. blockage
  3. closure
  4. occlusion
  5. stoppage
• the act of stopping something (noun)

  Examples

  1. the third baseman made some remarkable stops
  2. his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood

  Synonyms

  1. stoppage
• prevent completion (verb)

  Examples

  1. stop the project

  Synonyms

  1. break
  2. break off
  3. discontinue
• the state of inactivity following an interruption (noun)

  Examples

  1. he spent the entire stop in his seat

  Synonyms

  1. arrest
  2. check
  3. halt
  4. hitch
  5. stay
  6. stoppage
• stop from happening or developing (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. block
  2. halt
  3. kibosh
• render unsuitable for passage (verb)

  Examples

  1. stop the busy road

  Synonyms

  1. bar
  2. barricade
  3. block
  4. block off
  5. block up
  6. blockade
• a restraint that checks the motion of something (noun)

  Examples

  1. he used a book as a stop to hold the door open

  Synonyms

  1. catch
• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical (verb)

  Examples

  1. Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other

  Synonyms

  1. cease
  2. end
  3. finish
  4. terminate
• stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. hold on
• interrupt a trip (verb)

  Examples

  1. we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
  2. they stopped for three days in Florence

  Synonyms

  1. stop over
• seize on its way (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. intercept
• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. diaphragm
• a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it (noun)

  Examples

  1. his stop consonants are too aspirated

  Synonyms

  1. occlusive
  2. plosive
  3. plosive consonant
  4. plosive speech sound
  5. stop consonant
• come to a halt, stop moving (verb)

  Examples

  1. the car stopped
  2. She stopped in front of a store window

  Synonyms

  1. halt
• the event of something ending (noun)

  Examples

  1. it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill

  Synonyms

  1. halt
• a brief stay in the course of a journey (noun)

  Examples

  1. they made a stopover to visit their friends

  Synonyms

  1. layover
  2. stopover
• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations (noun)

  Examples

  1. in England they call a period a stop

  Synonyms

  1. full point
  2. full stop
  3. period
  4. point
• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. arrest
  2. check
  3. contain
  4. hold back
  5. turn back
• a spot where something halts or pauses (noun)

  Examples

  1. his next stop is Atlanta
• cause to stop (verb)

  Examples

  1. stop a car
  2. stop the thief
• (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes (noun)

  Examples

  1. the organist pulled out all the stops

See definition of stop in Merriam Webster